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GEORGE A. HARRIS AND JOHN B. HARRIS, OF SALEM COUNTY,

NEW JERSEY.

Letters Patent No. 88,565, elated April 6, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHUTTER-OPERATQR AND FASTENER.

The Schedule referred.` to in these Letters Patent and making part of the eamo.

To all who'mtt may. concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE A. HARRIS and JOHN B. HARRIS, of the county of Salem, in the State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shutter-Operators and Fasteners; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part ofthis specification, in which-- Figure l is an inside view, and

Figure 2, an outside View of a window-traine and itsshutters havingour improvement applied thereto.

Figure 3, a longitudinal section ofthe shutter-oper,- ating lever;

Figure 4, a side view of the lever-catch, for holding the shutter either entirely open or closed; and

Figure 5, a like view of the lever-catch, for holding the shutter partly open.

Like letters of reference indicate the same parts when in the different figures.

The obj ect of our improvement is to afford a simple and more reliable device, whereby the outside shutters of a window can with greater facility be either opened, bowed, or closed, and also fastened in either of said positions, in a more simple, ready, and reliable manner than heretofore, from the inside of the house, without requiring that the sash be raised or opened for the purpose. p

Our invention consists in the construction and arrangement of an operating-lever and catches, in coinbination with the window-frame and its outside shutters, substantially as hereinafter described ,and specified.

Referring to the drawings,

4A B is the window-frame,

G C', the window-shutters,

D, the operating-lever, and

E E', the catches. A

The operating-lever D is a cylindrical rod of iron or steel, which has a stem-handle, d, jointed to its inner end, so that the stem ofthe handle, together with the rod, can be moved horizontally backward and forward, and also rotated haltLway around, in an appropriate hole bored through the side of the frame oithe window, and has also its outer end flattened, and bent around, so as to form an arm, l,'at a right angle to the straight cylindrical portion of the rod, 'as shown in lig. 0

Over the inner ond of'. the hole in the frame which receives the said operating-lever D, there is ixcd a metallic boss, d", and, in a hole in the said boss, the cylindrical portion of the lever D lits loosely, or so that the same can be readily. moved accurately, and also so that it can be fixed ixnmovably by a thumb-screw, d4, in the side`of the boss, as occasion may require.

The arm ff, of the operating-lever D, when the latter is pushed outward,'an.d then turned partly around in the boss zl', passes down in close contact with the outside face of the open shutter, until stopped by the open catch E, which it enters. (See g. 2.) p

This stop -E is an upright stud, which projects, by a perpendicular stelmoin a curved friction-plate, e, fixed permanently on the shutter.

The rounded bend between the arm el and the cylindrical, straight portion of the operating-lever D, is retained in place in contact with the inner corner of the inner 'edge of the shutter, O or C', by means of a hinged loop, e5, through which the lever D passes loosely, and controls its position on its turning-pin. (See figs. 2 and 5.)

When the operating-lever D is turned around in its boss, so as to bring its arm rl" upright, and then pulled inward, the shutter will be caused thereby to be closed, because of the connecting-loop ci, and, consequently, if the operating-lever D benow turned around in the opposite direction, the arm l will be again causedto enter the catch E, as shown in g. l.

Now, if, in either of these positions of the shutter,

the thu1nb=screw ll be screwed hard up against the operatinglever D, the arm f of the latter will be held firmly in its catch E, and therefore the shutter will be held fast and rinly, the stein-handle cl dropping down into a vertical, or pendent "position when the shutter is fully closed, and supported horizontally in close contact with the boss l when the shutter is opened.

The catch E is a notched vertical plate, projecting perpendicularly from a flat friction-plate, c, which is fixedpermanently to the shutter at a point between the plate e and the inside edge of the shutter.

There are two or three square notches iu the upper Vedge of the projection, and into either of which the arm el, of the operating-lever D, can be readily turned, so as toenable the person to bring the said shutter to any suitable bowed or oblique position, and cause it to be held firmly in such position by means of the thumbscrew di, screwed up against the operating-lever, as before described.

It will be seen, that by means of the apparatus described, the shutters C C' can be adjusted with perfect facility to either of the dierent positions described, and then 'fastened securely and permanently in either of those positions, without requiring the sash te be raised, or opened for the purpose; that the apparatus is simple, and inexpensive oi' construction and operation, and can be readilyv applied to my of the outside shutters in general use, so as to be entirely effective for the purpose.

We are zmwlne that certain other devices for operating the outside shutters of windows, without opening the sash for the purpose, have been applied. Ve, therefore, do not desire to claim, broadly, suoli device; but, having fully described our improved shutter-operator and fastener,

What we claim as our invention, and desire to seeure by Letters Patent, is confined to the following, vlz:

We claim the operating-lever D, boss cl, thumbserew d4, and the catches E and E', the said devices beint,r construct-ed and arranged to operate in combination with the frame A B and shutter C 0r 0' 0l' a. window, substantially as :mdf'or the purposes described.

GEORGE A. HARRIS.

JOHN B. HARRIS.

Witnesses:

HENRY HILYARD, BENJ. F. BURT. 

